David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture
SCOM, OCS, PowerShell - Can you keep up?
As someone who attempts (and whose job!) it is to maintain at least a passing knowledge of all of...
Author: DavidZie Date: 03/28/2007
Virtual PC 2007 for 32 and 64 bit is Released!
Virtual PC 2007 runs on: Windows Vista™ Business; Windows Vista™ Enterprise; Windows Vista™...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/20/2007
SQL Server 2005 SP2 Released to Web
SQL Server 2005 SP2 has been released to the web. There are some signifcant virtualization use...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/19/2007
What are Composite Applications? See Microsoft Architect Journal 10
Volume 10 of the Microsoft Architect Journal has been released to the web. This issue deals with the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/19/2007
AnandTech's Windows Vista Performance Guide
AnandTech has published a Windows Vista Performance Guide that is a very good read. If you want...
Author: DavidZie Date: 02/02/2007
Jim Allchin on Security Features vs Convenience
Jim Allchin has a great post over on the Vista Team's blog about the tradeoffs and choices made in...
Author: DavidZie Date: 01/25/2007
PowerShell Analyzer
By now most of you have probably been exposed to PowerShell in one way or another. Like me, you...
Author: DavidZie Date: 01/19/2007
Microsoft Architect Journal 9
Sorry it's been so long since I posted, I've been very busy with projects, vacation, and the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 01/16/2007
More Info on the Microsoft and Novell Announcement
Jason Matusow has a detailed post on his blog about the announcement. Here's the announcement. I'm...
Author: DavidZie Date: 11/02/2006
Microsoft and Novell Announce Partnership
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-02NewsConferenceMA.mspx More later after the...
Author: DavidZie Date: 11/02/2006
Active Directory Certificate Server Enhancements in Longhorn
Fairly detailed article just published this week on TechNet. Dowload the article here.
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/25/2006
Significant Desktop Deployment and Management Announcements
Over on the Windows Vista Team Blog they link to an article and a Web site detailing our...
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/17/2006
RedmondMag.com Reviews Longhorn Server Core
RedmonMag.com has a good article on Windows Server Core which will be a version of Longhorn server...
Author: DavidZie Date: 10/06/2006
Exchange 2007 Processor and Memory Guidance
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been extremely busy on a really great project. I'll be...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/28/2006
Longhorn August CTP available on MSDN
From the Windows Server Division Weblog, the August CTP of Longhorn is available on MSDN. They say...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/12/2006
Vista RC1 is Available on MSDN
Just logged in to MSDN and saw that Vista has been posted for download. RC1 build 5600 is available...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/08/2006
Microsoft and Cisco Announce NAP and NAC Interop
Microsoft and Cisco committed to this back in 2004 I believe. NAP and NAC are technologies for...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/06/2006
Vista RC1 is done!
Vista RC1 is out! The news was announced late last night on the Windows Vista blog. Additional...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/02/2006
Mark Russinovich is Blogging on TechNet
Mark now has a blog at https://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/ and starts out with a typically...
Author: DavidZie Date: 09/01/2006
Microsoft Acquisitions and Strategy
Don Dodge, Microsoft's Director of Business Development for emerging businesses, has an interesting...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/29/2006
Great Info on 64-bit Vista Security and Patchguard
I was reading a post on Steve Riley's blog that linked to a couple of very interesting posts by Jeff...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/25/2006
IE 7 Release Candidate 1 is Now Available
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Dowloads available for XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 both...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/24/2006
Remote Access to Exchange, SharePoint and Terminal Server
One of my current projects is an architecture for an advanced technology demonstration lab....
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/21/2006
Vista and Longhorn Remote Access Features
Over on the Routing and Remote Access Blog, they list some of the RRAS features coming in Vista and...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/15/2006
Redmond Magazine Interview with Stephen Toulouse of the Microsoft Security Response Center
Redmond Magazine did a good interview with Stephen Toulouse, the guy who runs the Microsoft Security...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/09/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 is Released!
Beta 1 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager is up on the connect.microsoft.com site. More...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/08/2006
Good Review of Exchange 2007 on Infoworld
InfoWorld has a very positive review of Exchange 2007 on their website....
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/07/2006
Two Books on Storage Area Networks and Virtualization
I picked up two books this weekend on storage area networks (SAN) and SAN virtualization. The first...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/07/2006
Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, and Others Collaborate on Service Modeling Language
Microsoft and a bunch of other major tech vendors announced publication of a draft specification for...
Author: DavidZie Date: 08/01/2006
TechReady Day 4 & 5 - Virtualization, Microsoft.com, and Mars Rover
The last two days kind of blend together so I'll cover in one post. I went to several sessions on...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/28/2006
TechReady Day 3 - MS Research, Active Directory, SMS
Day 3 turned out to be even more interesting than I thought. There were keynotes again this morning,...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/27/2006
TechReady Day 2 - Unified Communication, Identity Management
Day 2 at TechReady lived up to expectations. Today I attended several sessions on Unified...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/26/2006
TechReady Day 1 - RMS, ADFS, and Longhorn
Day 1 at TechReady was great. There were several keynotes in the morning ending with one by Steve...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/26/2006
TechReady - Longhorn, Exchange 2007, and more
TechReady is an internal conference for Microsoft employees that packs a huge amount of...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/23/2006
Vista Steadily Improving
Reviews of the most recent Vista interim build 5472 have been pretty positive. Computerworld has a...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/21/2006
Russinovich: "On my way to Microsoft!"
Over on his blog Mark Russinovich has a post about yesterday's news that Microsoft is acquiring...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/19/2006
Nortel and Microsoft to Form Strategic Alliance for Unified Communications
Microsoft is announcing a strategic alliance with Nortel today in the Unified Communications space....
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/18/2006
Microsoft and Xen to Develop Interoperability
Today we announced an agreement with XenSource to develop interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/18/2006
Server Consolidation and Virtualization
There lots of questions and opinions on how to leverage virtualization to achieve server...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/17/2006
Improve OS Install Time on Virtual Server
New users of Virtual Server sometimes encounter very slow performance when installing an OS into a...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/16/2006
Improve Security - Run Windows XP SP2 on Legacy Hardware
With Vista approaching in the not too distant future, the links below describe a version of Windows...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/14/2006
Resources for Infrastructure Architects
There are some valuable resources for infrastructure architects that I wanted to highlight for you....
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/13/2006
VirtualPC is FREE!
Hot off the presses from the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference:...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/12/2006
We need more power, Scotty! (and other data center news)
Power is increasingly a critical design factor for large data centers. Few are larger than those...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/11/2006
Controlling Printer Mappings via Group Policy & Scripts
A question came up this morning from a customer who wants to create a GPO that applies to a group of...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/11/2006
New Infrastructure Architecture Blog!
Welcome to my new blog! I hope to use this space to both provide and solicit insight on the art and...
Author: DavidZie Date: 07/10/2006